levy is in deadlock it's thousands flee the unrest but many fear a possible flying intervention could only add to the problems. we're going to stay here until all the demands of been met people's voices are still sounding loud in the streets of egypt bods again want of the first arab states that a man democracy if the anti businesses which are now feeling the better aftertaste of revolution. and almost six decades after joseph stalin staff the car a virtual soviet leaders still idolise then demonized in equal measures. it

is telling on the russian capital you're watching r t with me arena joshie welcome to the program while levy is locked in bloody battles u.s. and u.k. forces remain on standby amid fears they could intervene as thousands flee the troubled land many of its residents say they don't want international involvement viewing it as another form of oppression archy's polis near reports. this is the road of libya but it's also the road to that lines the pockets of hundreds of libyans who make their living selling fuel internews year fourteen times the price they paid back home. to the libyan gadhafi or one. more and libya long live gadhafi let him stay in power for life. and as much as some may support gadhafi other libyans despise the united states for the moment of course the u.s.

will not enter libya what rights they have they don't have a ticket after that is libyan put days he's been trying to get through the canadian side of the border to check up on his family who on the other side you know some of them have been injured the answer he says is not with foreign intervention. people libyan people they don't the world. another like every i mean like so much in libya the foreign nations seem to be giving a little concerned to what libyans themselves actually want a debate for a no fly zone is continuing and u.s. warships are sailing not far from the libyan coast there really come help libya not to be a great help libya for the world was the world this is probably if the u.s. russia and other countries get involved it was time that scenes like this i used just i mean should the people here are against foreign involvement they know well

the price is often paid for so-called humanitarian assistance history has shown that humanitarian aid in any war zone is more often than not thinly disguised military aid during the war in bosnia it was discovered that u.n. trucks delivering aid were in fact transporting military equipment in afghanistan the very wickens american aid to the taliban in the early eighty's came back to haunt the u.s. army following its two thousand and one afghan invasion so it's no wonder libyans whether they support gadhafi or not are united on one issue they want the world and american particular to stay out of the riff is policy r.t. . on the chin is in libyan border and geologic alomar for and blogger says it would be a serious mistake of the u.s. and its allies choose a military path in libya. intervention in libya would really i think the moral force and dignity of the sort of indigenous arab revolt that we've been

seeing i think it would be a serious mistake that really would put the u.s. and yet another difficulty if the crisis truly gets on hand then it's up to the arab league and the african union who have discussed their willingness to perhaps intervene if things did really get out of hand any military adventure can end disastrously regardless of the initial motives even if they are noble and benign which in itself is an roic assumption really mean while egyptian which was one of the countries that started a domino effect of protests rolling if the arab world is still feeling the apco of its own revolt under its continued to demonstrate what top by their earlier success but as artie's acts on a boycott reports the article by saying may end up costing the jobs of more than just the president. loading on freedom after decades of protest abstinence

education is a tasting day newly found liberty's still unable to get enough of it. given the resignation of hosni mubarak's close associate as prime minister one of the key demands of the opposition didn't take the steam out of geoffrey squares rally in fact been number of ten seats a resident seems to be getting even higher now than he has been camping on the square for three weeks formerly a special needs educator chickweed her job to be here and so far has no intention of looking for a new one we're going to stay here until all the demands have been met the demands are being met one by one but it's still the process has begun longer than expected the revolution is not yet over but it's already becoming a brand street vendors who peddled mubarak's portraits just two months ago have now switched to the revolution in more a billionaire. a lot of people love revolution everyone wants to be a part of the plugs of selling world. means liberation in arabic

a fitting need for a square has become a focal point in anding mubarak's autocratic rule yet a few profiteering renders notwithstanding the gyptian revolution comes at a high cost tucker squares back with protesters again only now instead of resignation demand they're chanting celebrators slogans a piece of revolutionary intoxication about totally natural is causing in millions of dollars every day branded as a symbol of street egypt's tahrir square stands in a stark contrast to another egyptian attraction the slave build pyramids the rolling crowds have scary their way visitors lost revenues already exceeding one billion dollars usually in speech. before is a problem is. business of course a problem. many people here don't believe that car approaches will significantly

alter their life prospects for them freedom comes with their ability to feed their families that for now remains far from certain the business is growing very slow at the moment we have almost like five. seven percent of the clients and most of them are coming from middle east not coming from europe it's not that they don't support the revolution they're just the first to discover it's bittersweet taste and to realize that revolutionary intoxication is almost always followed by had a son of artsy cairo. later in the program we'll be in new york to gauge reaction to the protests. people hurt people hurt we move to action. the resident laurie harkness finds out how people are viewing the protests from the other side of the atlantic. plus you raise a way to jaroslav or to see how locals of this time all russian town tackle extreme

sports. for that he was praised and i lived by san despised and scorned by others joseph stalin was called the father of the nation abroad the country through the war but locked away in labor camps the heroes who helped him do it fifty eight years after his death the dispute over his legacy is still loud and clear as cuz you realize our in our reports and of hitler we need and. joseph stalin some of history's most notorious dictators and for years we're a guru by the people of their countries the cult of personality phenomenon has intrigued historians and psychologists alike but the simple sounding question of how one person exact such influence over millions still does not have a simple answer is something. remind me of the stockholm

syndrome in a way. after you. can the process of. some birth person. you start loving. the reason of the true love but it's a way to save yourself to keep your balance ok. the so-called people's father ruled the country with an iron fist and despite the carers persecutions and executions he was almost worshiped. by the term the soviet union entered the second world war stalin's personality cult was at an all time high men and women all across the country were willing to lay down their lives for only believing that bravery and ultimately victory guarantee them stalins approval of the survivors didn't know is that for most of them life after the war would be much much worse. there was twenty three when he returned home from the battlefields

having survived dozens of attacks partisan missions and months in captivity he was proud to be coming back alive proud to have accomplished what comrade stalin had asked of him. i remember being marched through a small lot into the local women were all standing on the street throwing things that are spitting and showed pain stalin's bandits that's what they called the court isms and i remember feeling them a sort of pride because being all leaders bend it somehow close to him and we all wanted that i had that feeling for a long time until i set things straight. in one thousand forty eight live near there was accused of being a traitor and sentenced to twenty five years in a labor camp the charge was simple he survived it to be which to stand mind meant he had sold out his country for his life no proof was necessary after three months of torture left me it was ready to sign any document whatsoever with him i refused

to sign this so-called confessions even after all the torture they put me through but then they said if you don't sign will bring your parents here and i can let them go for this so i agreed a few months later i was on my way to the polar region within the rules labor camp . eight years later you have returned home and the new secretary general of the soviet union denounced alan's personality called the man who had twice been named time magazine's person of the year had all his carefully sculpted glory taken away to the states style and evokes mixed emotions with his actions still being debated ensuring in some respect his personality cult still survives. catching as our of our t.v. moscow and us military slowly succumbing to drug abuse with the use of since that is also known as rapidly gaining popularity among recruits

a midshipman have recently been expelled from the naval academy for possessing a substance are his military contributor the problem stems from america's a long term involvement in afghanistan. it's been almost a year since their high seas has acquired a totally new connotation for the u.s. navy in march two thousand and ten it was that beginning of the corruption of the u.s. naval academy at annapolis by synthetic drugs since then dozens of the navy knew chipman has been separated or expelled from day academy unfortunately it was not an exception neither for the u.s. navy north for other branches of the u.s. armed forces so in a way the latest drug abuse investigation is only an attempt of the eyes very of the per knishes and negative influence of the american involvement in afghanistan indeed what could motivate future u.s.

navy leaders to buy and to resale the drugs among their peers there it could be several reasons for such a reckless and criminal action and most of this is that the us navy are jealous of the us marines who are enjoying the poppy fields in helmand and kandahar and as a result they just fall back on the artificial stuff the juice and all of that organic very juana however it did legitimize old kinds of criminal activity it also legitimize the culture of impunity and profiteering and that is probably the hidden agenda of the us open ended commitment to afghanistan. you can always find more analysis from our military contributor on line to here's a taste of what else is lined up for you. while the u.s. is quick to condemn other countries for the sexual exploitation of minors thousands are being trafficked in america each year. and the next syosset as crews set for

a voyage to the stars but not before sitting down for exams to make sure the cosmin ops are fully prepared follow their progress at r.t. dot com. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and the chinese premier has promised to clamp down on inflation and urgently raise incomes in a bid to ensure social stability wen jiabao was addressing the parliament's annual session and a move aim to sharing the country's rapid economic growth he said the working class and rural residents would receive more help from the government and higher wages he outlined a plan to turn the economy away from exports to one driven by domestic consumption . italian prime minister silvio berlusconi's back on trial today this time on corruption charges he's accused of fraud and embezzlement over the purchase of television rights by one of his media companies it is one of four

separate trail trials berlusconi is currently involved in including one where he is charged of paying an underage girl for sex the seventy four year old denies all allegations against him. the man accused of the shooting of a u.s. congresswoman has been given a new charge over the death of a federal judge killed in the same attack twenty two year old jared loughner now faces forty nine separate counts relating to the shootings six people were killed as gabrielle giffords held a constituency event in arizona in early january if convicted loughner could face the death penalty. with longstanding leaders already toppled in the arab world and others under intense pressure it's absurd to know when or how the turmoil will end this week whether journalist or harmfulness also known as the residents hit the streets of new york to gauge reaction to the protests.

did all the insurrections revolutions and uprisings in the middle east catch you off guard this week let's talk about that i used the prize i'm not surprised. i'm going for a moment i will say seven weeks ago and by then. i reported to the war that the political situation in the middle east was very very unstable unstable one week after the whole same color and tunisia and egypt change was coming right we all knew change was going to come i mean more market off we had this guy it was just a matter of time before these dictators were you know things change people want change people were hurt people hurt we moved to action and people were avery they moved to action do you think the world leaders are caught off guard by those. i think they're caught off guard in knowing what how to react because they i believe they

know the world is going to be more unstable but they have to support the idea of freedom so it's a mixed blessing for you think that all these are going to lead to more and raster more instability yes i believe it's more about power and the unfair distribution of power than it is about real democracy oh i think it's you know does the time make the leader does the leader make the times though that's always like an ongoing question when it comes to stuff like this and i think we have to wait and see this is going to be a good test for everyone in power right now to see how they come out yes but what do you think the effect is going to be around the world what i think it's really not going to make much difference what i hope is that when different people come into power that they'll see and they'll start treating our people right and everybody in this world we will have the united states will have to be a police country anymore but all the social networking that's going on there you can no longer hold their people and feed them the propaganda that they used to do

you think this is something that could happen here or in europe or in other places definitely that's scary you. know. because you're prepared for it but i think it'll definitely happen it's a little scary to know that people anyone can have so much influence now i don't want a leader giving me problems and i but it's a little unnerving to know that anyone with a computer can have that kind of power to you have to be smart enough to know what to listen to and what to ignore whether or not you think anyone has any idea of what's to come next the bottom line is that there's no denying this is a time of change. the time now to get to know russia close up.

some three hundred kilometers north of los carolina's the jaroslava region thousands of tourists from all over the world flock there for its striking views and the lay of all churches and bought a series but it's not just history that attracts people when there are means almost thirty seven thousand square kilometers are covered in snow making it a perfect spot for sports lovers archies lindsey france slopes. everyone's going crazy for sports in the region of russia just ask the roster professional athletes speeding through the international ski federation's cross country world cup at germany a center of winter sport and leisure situated on their steam banks of the volga river poland's olympic gold medalist just passed the other women the first day of the races. conditionals the disposal of the classic but if

you stick with what you think about the course oh you said the. hoops not supposed to talk to the media yet i admit i snuck behind the lines before i was allowed. next was the men's phrase valentino ten ish over herself the first female boss minot was blocking the finish. you can you it's wonderful if you look who's won but all of them skied well it's a great event of course i want that winning student to be even better than exists but they didn't form well we have a very glad progression with over four hundred children enrolled here terminal offers the average middle class russian a chance to realize their dreams as a sportsman and offers the foreigner a chance to see this place for what it really is. locals want it to be the new. enter destination one that will fill the surrounding restaurants and hotels is but you know this is a front desk of the city thousands of people come and spend their time here every

year and we're sure to expand opportunities because this will inevitably affect the number of people who go in for sports in general and being for winter sports in particular. not far away in the historic merchant's city of new pledge festivities are just getting underway to celebrate the winter it's massive down on the volga river powered moscow with what tricity throughout world war two its collection of churches greet tourists votes on their first stop from moscow from the church of john the baptist to the church of prince dimitri on blood built in commemoration of young prince dimitris gruesome death in fifty ninety one the place is steeped in tradition but it has a way of breaking out of that shell during a season when most cities are pretty quiet these people are making a party of it in the most colorful way possible so most of i knew it was better oh yeah i've been i swimming for thirty years i love it there is no need for any of

the home full house bits that are widespread nowadays you sit them aside and go down for dip in the pond. back at them and now between the skiing and the snowmobiling which they were kind enough to teach me they're waiting for a good burn the end of the world cup races thanks to a frightful wind storm the summer of two thousand and ten ninety percent of the surrounding forest was knocked down locals retaliated by stacking the fallen wood twenty two metres high then registering it in the guinness book of world records they'll burn it into a massive bonfire after the final race now that is competitive sportsmanship. winter sport is making big changes to the community out here and ribbons and here to shed more light on that is local winter sport enthusiasm alexander survey of. so a little light on that out for us why is it making such big changes to live or bands well really it's developing c.d.'s and them and it helps to develop every

year develops more and more something more different tracks and rebuilds it. and we have a local skiers the great opportunity to. train. in summer i would have an opportunity to roller skating so it's great to me and i do it myself i like it very much i like skis sounds i think i was a lot of citizens like to ski on saturday for sports it's very important your national character yeah you know thank you for joining us and here for close up twenty friends. from russian crown jewels to the latest franz and diamonds in a short while our moscow our team pays a visit to some of the most exclusive partakes in town. i can

ask god like to create a ring from scratch the company tries themselves in creating one of a kind he says for any occasion first my domain is check several times for continuity in cost current clarity and. the jewel of jewels the process of the setting ensure that the gems fit but actually i'll show case as much as possible. absolutely it's was it all i need to do though is i found somebody to give it three . zero. zero zero zero zero scars here in just over five minutes before that we'll take a look at what's happening in business with us. that's right time to get the latest business news now we start with the news about b.p.'s shareholders have decided to postpone edison on well the british russian

joint venture wants to participate in the b.p. and rosneft arctic exploration deal the meeting was held in berlin on friday after it was initially pushed forward from the original date of february twenty fifth two to b.p. failing to turn up the agenda of the next t.n.t. b.p. meeting on march twelfth will include didn't questions but the american calls from north capitol says this may become an ace in the company's hand to give the house to some dividends and part of those dividends will go. to be because be a partner of timothy. and they use the river boom you as a tool to push. to make a decision in conjunction with articles corp project i don't think that's necessarily going to happen but that's probably be the most powerful tool in the hands of. shareholders to prius b p but will breed the solution of this

and the world's largest only medium producer resolve rejected neurons nichols offer to buy twenty percent of its shares twelve point eight billion dollars let him know more about it says who sells c e o would take when the exit aspect is not about to cede his date while metal prices are enjoying a high. since we believe the prime reason for a meeting a shareholder of neural snicko. due process. occurred more of your cycle so therefore would believe for as long as the middle prices were being stronger so is likely to just be the shelf in the us however because the rules are with the rules for the jewelry in the world excess gosh this year and next year or so before they'll have to or buying the shares from will solves one of the very few opportunities which would actually create variance therefore i believe that there is a good chance the mere abuse of the dogs while the city. and another working day

for the russian markets the herald long weekend due to a public holiday in the country the r.t.s. is climbing in the few minutes of trading how whether on saturday the activity of traders is likely to be many months due to an absence of foreign benchmarks miles it's because that you see on the screen our brain is closing because we'll start trading in a few minutes. more than a third of russian companies claim they have employees that are too smart and whose intellect brings more harm to the company ben good and smart employee may cause trouble all the he develops bad manners personal problems or a progressive damages to this mean while forty two percent of companies say they do not have such a police trying a way during the job the cation interviews that were boring would marry but are burton people such as we adapt to the better workforce better than their intelligent ones while to smart work this is the start dictating their terms and

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to spain to the all gritty and republic. center of russian defense production. now while she heads to central russia. to craft some become an industry. the harsh winter makes for even more enjoyable. and when everyone can train to be a stump. for the younger smaller. russia players are on hot seat.